Speaker Profile
CEO, GA4GH
Biography
Peter Goodhand is a senior executive and board member in the global health sector. He has been the senior executive of GA4GH since its founding in 2013. Prior to GA4GH, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian CancerSociety and has also served as the President of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Before joining the notforprofit sector, Goodhand had a 20 year career in the global medical technology industry, including strategic leadership roles with multinational healthcare companies; Board Chair and President of Canada's Medical Device Industry association (MEDTECH); and as the founding Managing Director and the Board Chair of the Health Technology Exchange(HTX).Goodhand is currently CoChair on the boards of Global Genes and the Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative (GGMC); CoChair of the International 100K+ Cohorts Consortium (IHCC); and a member of numerous international advisory boards.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- PMWC 2024 Luminary Award
Luminary Honoree: Heidi Rehm, MGH and Broad Institute
- Opening Talk: The Power of Data by Track Chair Gaddy Getz, Broad Institute
- Challenges of Remote Data Harmonization and Querying (PANEL)
Chair: Heidi Rhem, MGH and Broad Institute
- Chris Lunt, All of Us
- Simona Carini, UCSF
- Josh Peterson, Emerge/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Nara Sobreira, Johns Hopkins/GeneMatcher - Promoting Global Collaboration for Data Sharing: Overcoming Organizational and Sectoral Barriers (PANEL)
Chair: Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- Peter Goodhand, GA4GH
- Valentina Di Francesco, NHGRI
- Melanie Courtot, ICGC-ARGO
- Erica Galvez, Manifest MedEx - Keynote: Machine Learning for Therapeutic Discovery
- Daphne Koller, insitro
- Exploring the Power of AI and Data Sciences in Drug Discovery (PANEL)
Chair: Michelle Chen, Insilico Medicine
- Kim Branson, GSK
- Laszlo Radvanyi, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Martin Stumpe, Tempus
- Sun-Gou Ji, BridgeBio
- Angela Oliveira Pisco, Insitro - Foundation Models to Advance Precision Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Nigam Shah, Stanford
- Aashima Gupta, Google
- Rod Tarrago, AWS
- Lana Feng, Huma.ai - PMWC Showcase
- Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
